The results of the CPAC straw poll this year will surprise quite some people:

Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney won. 20% of conservative activists present said they would vote for Romney if they’d have to vote for the Republican  nominee for president already.

Second place went to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Jindal is one of the party’s rising stars and was allowed to give the party’s response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union earlier this week.| MORE ›

Better late than never:

A fascinating documentary about Britain in the 1970s and Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzcfmlaPHg[/youtube]

H/t Dagelijkse Standaard

Tory leader David Cameron, who lost his son recently, sent an email to supporters (and others on the party’s email list) thanking them for their support.

“Sam and I have been overwhelmed by all the letters, cards, emails and flowers we have received about Ivan. Sending an e-mail this week just gives us both a chance to say a big “thank you”. It means a lot to know that others are thinking of us and him,” the best conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher writes.| MORE ›

My father’s definition of the range of ideology is this:

I believe personality definitions are spherical in nature and can be defined by spherical equations (and a sinusoid).  The far fringes meet and touch on the other side of reality.  Once you get past + (conservative) & – (liberal) 90 degrees (reality) you slowly progress into non-reality until at 180 degrees the right and left non-realities meet and in essence are the same in actions and deeds.| MORE ›

The National Review’s Andy McCarthy been absolutely brutal in refuting Dawn Johnsen’s testimony that the DOJ Office of Legal Council nominee gave to Senate Judiciary Committee.  In exposing Johnsen’s lies about her own written record, McCarthy exemplifies everything that is good about the American media.  A virtual round for Andy, please, on the house.

Here’s what Ms. Johnsen believes about abortion, in her own words:| MORE ›

Steve Hayward says that if Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase is implemented that he will go on strike in the fashion of John Galt, Ayn Rand’s famous lead in Atlas Shrugged.| MORE ›

No, not THAT RMN.  Richard M. Nixon has been gone these many years.  Today the Rocky Mountain News, Denver’s oldest newspaper, published its last issue.The Rocky Mountain News is one of many newspapers and news magazines exiting the business.  Seattle’s Post Intelligencer and San Francisco’s Chronicle are on the ropes as well.| MORE ›

Fascinating:

But the plan Obama will outline does not back away in major ways from his pledge to withdraw U.S. combat forces. Instead of a 16-month withdrawal period, as he originally called for, most of the troops now in Iraq would be withdrawn over the next 19 months, leaving by August 2010, senior officials said.| MORE ›

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has made a video for College Republicans asking conservative citizens to donate to this conservative organization. As Newt explains in the video, Republicans have lost a lot of ground on college campuses. Liberals do not only dominate the academic debate, and the staff of universities, they also form the far, far majority of students.

The reason for the above is quite simple: Republicans haven’t done enough to inform students about conservative principles and ideas.| MORE ›